World War Z (film)

[Neil]

Is it just me, or does it sound like she's asking Brad Pitt to be a prostitute? I mean an actual hooker, by the way, not the whoring that his career path has done. No, it's just you ---------- Post added at 06:19 PM ---------- Previous post was at 09:36 AM ---------- Wow! Coincidence! Got some friends over tonight from a town south of us call Tunbridge Wells. In the middle of the even one of them said, "Hey! Brad Pitt is going to be filming in Tunbridge Wells!" To which I said, "Not, World War Z?" "Yes! How did you know!" http://www.thisiskent.co.uk/news/Pit...l/article.html Even better! Turns out my friend works opposite the place in question

[Sammich]

It appears that Brad Pitt is trying to do a remake and reimaging of Seven Samurai/Magnificient Seven/ Inglorious Basterds set with world full of zombies. Truly pathetic. I hope this movie is the Cutththroat Island of his production company. The bigger the names and bigger the budget attached to a film, the more dumbed down it gets to appeal to the lowest common denominator, i.e. the american idiot/dancing with the hasbeens fans who haven't even cracked open a book since they were forced to in high school. MBAs (morons of backstabbing and asskissing) and marketing departments have become the malignant cancer of all U.S. industries.

[blind2d]

Full agreement with you sir. "Muffins?" - D. H. Not now, Derpy.

[DjfunkmasterG]

Well as zombie fans you should be emailing paramount and throwing a shit fit.

[Johnsrog]

I just logged onto HPOTD for the first time in months and saw the headline piece about WWZ being butchered and felt I'd pass along strong reassurance that. . . using the term butchered is being too kind. I've read two of JMS's drafts and a budget draft by Matthew Carnahan and this project has been pretty much doomed from the start. JMS's were definitely closer to the tone of the novel, but I was never in love with them. There's a strange desire to tie the narrator directly into one of the elements of the novel, and it works but its still a bit eye-rolling. Carnahan's draft, the version that they're putting to screen, is nothing like the novel. Here's a weird little tidbit that I hope gets lost in the transition-- The zombies are more akin to Return of the Living Dead than anything Romero, with the odd decision to make them completely mute. So no moaning, no groaning, the only noise they make is the shattering of their teeth as they try to bite down. Oh, head shots don't kill them either, it slows them down but they're still after you.

[Publius]

Zooks. If that's true, it's the last nail in the coffin for me.

[Neil]

Here's a weird little tidbit that I hope gets lost in the transition-- The zombies are more akin to Return of the Living Dead than anything Romero, with the odd decision to make them completely mute. So no moaning, no groaning, the only noise they make is the shattering of their teeth as they try to bite down. Oh, head shots don't kill them either, it slows them down but they're still after you. How is any of this in the least bit "World War Z"?

[Rancid Carcass]

How is any of this in the least bit "World War Z"? Maybe they should rename it World War Y - as in why are they even bothering... This is starting to make Dawn 04 look like a shot for shot remake!

[Neil]

this is starting to make dawn 04 look like a shot for shot remake! lol!

[blind2d]

Also agreed. Perhaps... Perhaps zombie films will never be as good as they were back in '04 ever again... Aww, I'm all depressed now... <Heard in distance> "Open up Mr. Mailbox, it's time for your breakfast!" Dawwww! Oh Derpy, you know just how to cheer me up!

[DEAD BEAT]

yeah piss on that!

[Wyldwraith]

Not a surprise sadly, I've never allowed myself the tiniest subatomic particle of hope that Brad Pitt being associated with the adaptation of any high-quality zombie work to the big screen was EVER anything but doomed to a Half-star rating and a bottomed-out score on Rotten Tomatoes, and one of the shortest theater runs of all time. Hearing the zombies are going to be Return-esque? Forget nail in the coffin. That's the world's largest earthmover dropping 1,000 tons of dirt on this project. Zombies that can't be destroyed via head-trauma are one of the all-time-lamest movie monsters. They transcend even the worst examples of Slasher-villain franchise sequels, because at least Jason/Freddy/Michael Myers can be knocked down, temporarily incapacitated, or otherwise effectively resisted. Return only worked because its a comedy. Each and every attempt at a "serious" sequel resulted in ever more awful pieces of Screen-Puke. The entire shape of the last 15% of WWZ-as-normal is 100% unusable, non-adaptable with invincible zombies. No epic political rallying of humanity, no great push from the Rockies eastward to reclaim the White Zones....nothing. Just, as in every Return movie, a foreseen Humanity-loses-oriented ending...well, with one and a half exceptions, but you all know what I mean. Yea, if non-headshot zombies make it to the finished product, this will be another -Z-grade, worse-than-bad-made-for-SyFy Channel movie shit. Anyone disagree?

[Mitchified]

Yea, if non-headshot zombies make it to the finished product, this will be another -Z-grade, worse-than-bad-made-for-SyFy Channel movie shit. Anyone disagree? Yes, for one reason. What you just described sounds BETTER than this attempt at World War Z. Sharktopus vs. MegaCroc vs. Zombies... now that's a movie.

[Sammich]

I don't know how an author can sell the movie rights to his book and not even retain some amount of oversight in the story/script, that is unless the whole zombie books thing was to make a quick buck. Just think if Kirkman had been approached by Brad Pitt to make a Walking Dead movie and did the same just gimmee the money approach that Brooks did. It would have ended up being a reimaging/remake of Yojimbo/Last Man Standing with Brad Pitt in the lead role as a nomad ex-sherrif survivor in a zombie apocalypse who gathers together a rag tag group of deputies to stop a gang war among the living. But things aren't always as they seem! Don't miss the action zombedy of the summmer!

[Mitchified]

I don't know how an author can sell the movie rights to his book and not even retain some amount of oversight in the story/script, that is unless the whole zombie books thing was to make a quick buck. Max Brooks has repeatedly said that he wanted nothing to do with his book being made into a movie for multiple reasons, mainly because he realized that a book and a movie weren't the same type of media. Also, the "whole zombie books" thing as you put it wasn't to make money; Brooks has been a huge fan of the genre since he was little and he has very definite opinions on how the genre should be (YouTube his answer as to what he thinks of fast zombies for an example).